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Hi,everybody. I am a Japanese do it yourselfer/an alfa owner. I have spent more than 15 years of my life on driving Alfa 145 which I bought in 1998,of which at the end the floor pan of 1st Alfa 145 had been rusted by sodium chloride used for a snow melting agent in snowy district and I discarded it this year. At the same time of this,I bought 2nd Alfa 145 and made up my mind of driving/maintaining it for a long time. I think a set of car lift is necessary for me to maintain/tune up an old Alfa145 I think. I bought MaxJax car lift from the US at the end of this October. In Japan we cannot find stores selling MaxJax because there are few people who actually tune up/fix their cars by themselves.The houses are so tiny and most of us cannot afford garage spaces thanks to expensive cost for living and garaging because of our extremely large population density in Japan. Fortunately I live in Hokkaido at the north end of Japan actually rural district and could buy a house with garage. I like cars,drive cars and fix/tune cars from childhood. So I decided to buy myself MaxJax this October from a dealer in US. My one was shipped by sea for a month,and I picked it up at my nearest port driving a rental small truck and went through the customs formalities by myself on 4 Dec 2013. 　 Offloaded my MaxJax with an engine crane,and my son helped me in my garage. I have set it up by myself and use on 200V AC single phase 50Hz. So I have to modify wiring to motor. My motor is split-phase induction motor　completely different animal than that of previous one. All wirings have done and in this week I have set anchors for this lift on the concrete floor of my garage. Tools for anchoring. Put 2 vacant bottles in the right angle to check drills perpendicular to the concrete surface. Inserted anchors. Extended the wrench with discarded genuine muffler because it was necessary to tighten them with extreme torque. Finally has the wrench gone. it's actually tiresome and feel slight pain on my back. I'm going to my favourite ONSEN a Japanese spa for relaxation this afternoon. Have a look at my house and commute. Snows much today,enough of it! My commute in winter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImzdZFLUhd0